Bumblebees exhibit the memory spacing effect

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1185-1191

  Toda, Nicholas R T ^a   Song, Jeremy ^a   Nieh, James C ^a  

^a University of California San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Bumblebees; Classical conditioning; Memory spacing effect; Olfactory conditioning; Proboscis extension reflex; Trial spacing effect

Indexed keywords

BEE; GENE FLOW; HOST PLANT; LEARNING; MEMORY; NECTAR; ODOR; POLLINATOR;

ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCAPSULATION; INCUBATION TIME; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR CONTROL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FLOWERS; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NECTAR; POLLINATION; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS;

EID: 70349601661     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-009-0582-1     Document Type: Article

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